General Newsletter for February 2013
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SUMMARY: AT A GLANCE
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1. Gandi’s new Private VLANs
2. The Web Accelerator – a load balancer for web traffic
3. New extensions: .CM, .FI and .HU.NET
4. A special promotion for US customers
5. Other promotions in progress
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The new year is starting to heat up. Gandi is coming out of the winter cold with a blast of hot new products, and a huge giveaway for US customers that should help you shake off that chill and get ready for spring.
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1. Gandi’s new Private VLANs
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All of you who have been wondering what new innovative product we were going to come out with next can stop guessing and start cheering. We are adding the ability to add private networking to our Gandi Cloud VPS instances. It’s so simple to set up and use that you might miss how revolutionary the technology we came up with to do it actually is. When we release it as open source, it will rock the cloud computing world, blowing the doors off networking limitations that we and other cloud providers have been bumping up against.
Best of all, it’s free to users of Gandi Cloud VPS systems.
http://www.gandibar.net/post/2013/02/05/Is-16-Million-VLANs-enough-for-you
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2. The Web Accelerator – a load balancer for web traffic
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Making web hosting faster is our passion, and we have done some really great things with caching in the last year or so, mostly by optimizing Varnish on Gandi Simple Hosting. We are leveraging that work to make a web load balancing and acceleration solution available this week in beta test.
This feature will let you add web caching and load balancing speed and redundancy features to your Gandi Cloud VPS web servers. This easy-to-use, yet powerful feature brings the kind of speed and optimization that the big web sites use to your sites, without the big bills of dedicated server farms.
http://www.gandibar.net/post/2013/02/11/An-Accelerator-for-your-Web-servers
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3. New extensions : .CM, .FI and .HU.NET
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This month, we are launching three new country-code top-level domains:
The .CM extension from Cameroon is now available at Gandi! Long sought for it’s similarity to the ever-popular .COM, this extension can be registered at Gandi for $75 a year, at price level A:
https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2013-01-22/888-new_extension_.cm_at_gandi/
The .FI extension is now available as well, for Finnish residents or companies registered in Finland. You can register a .FI at Gandi for just $26 a year.
https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2013-02-14/906-.fi_domains_available/
The .HU.NET, a great substitute for the official (and hard to register) .HU extension of Hungary, is now available. In contrast to the .HU, which requires Gandi Corporate Services to get, the .HU.NET is obtainable online!
https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2013-02-14/907-new_centralnic_extension/
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4. A Special promotion for US Customers
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Gandi is an international company, and many of us live and work in the USA. We really love talking to our US customers, and we wanted to do something special this year for all of you who subscribe to this newsletter.
Some of you may have noticed already that you have TEN new promo codes in your account. Each of these is good for 50% off of a domain registration in any of the following extensions: .NET, .ORG, .US, .INFO, .BIZ
You can find the promo codes in your account here:
https://www.gandi.net/admin/billing/promos
These will work until April 1. Enjoy them yourself, or pass them out to friends!
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5. Other promotions in progress
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Heres a quick reminder that we have some other promotions running:
– The .CO extension is also 50% off for the month of February, for all price levels! You can get one for just $16.50 at price level A, and even less for the deeper discount levels.
https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2013-02-01/893-.co_at_half_price/
– Are you a Pro? Check out the .PRO extension at half of the normal price! It’s $10 for the month of February, for all price levels:
https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2013-02-01/890-50_off_.pro_domains/
– The .ASIA extension is available for $10.00 for creation of new domains for a year. This promotion is valid until April 30 2013:
https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2013-01-03/871-.asia_for_10/
– The .ME (for Montenegro) extension is 25% off, for creation of new domains at all price levels. Valid until the end of March. See:
https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2013-01-08/878-.me_promo/
So dear reader, as always we want to hear from you. Send us your suggestions, comments, praise, criticism, and witticism. We read what you send to newsletter-en@gandi.net with interest.
Sincerely,
Thomas Stocking
COO, Gandi US, Inc.
http://www.gandi.net
